Posted
by
Hemos
on Monday December 25, 2000 @12:11PM
from the time-to-work-the-brain dept.

While you might have just finished your third round of egg-nog, it's time to use the old noggin. Some of you may remember last Christmas' chess puzzle - well, I've been talking to Fredric Friedel again - check out more details below - or jump to the puzzle itself but read the setup below.

Frederic Friedel of Chessbase writes:
"Christmas -- time to drive Slashdot folks nuts again, with a little chess
puzzle. Frederic Friedel of ChessBase did it last year, and has a new
brain-teaser for us today: "A game ends with the move 6.gxf8=N mate. How
did it go?" Starting from the initial chess position you have to find six
moves that lead to a white pawn on g7 capturing a black piece on f8,
promoting to a knight and delivering mate. Naturally both sides cooperate
to achieve the goal. Further details are to be found on Frederic's puzzle
page. It is easier than last year's puzzle.
If you find the correct solution do not post it in this forum or any
newsgroups and spoil the fun for everyone else. Nobody will admire you
for it, and some will be extremely annoyed."

i glanced at this puzzle and set to work only to find that i had misread the move as fxg8 instead of gxf8. it took me longer to solve the wrong one than the right one. probably cause i was warmed tho rather than it being harder.--

Whenever there's a big event like this, practically all forty thousandslashdot users submit the same story four or five times in hopes of gettingtheirs on the front page. If you had thought a little beforecomplaining, you would realize that the admins can only post one, sothey pick a favorite and reject the other sixteen thousand redundant copies.